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Senior Linux System Engineer
Top Secret Security Clearance will need to be obtained

Responsibilities:
The primary goal of this position is to provide support in the MNSO OSS Compute team. Responsibilities include a wide range of activities, including the architecture, planning, implementation, design, capacity management, and operational support for the Linux Virtual and Physical infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Operations Systems Support, Network Infrastructure, Security Infrastructure, Project teams, IT, Operations, and Product teams. Activities include but are not limited to Change, Incident, Problem, and Risk Management. Additionally, you will be expected to own and drive the resolution of highly complex issues during regular business hours and off-hour escalations or maintenance activities.

Qualifications:

• Proactively maintain and develop all RedHat Linux Virtual and Physical infrastructure technology to support a 24x7x365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
• Fault finding, analysis, and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hotfixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware.
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks.
• Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
• Develop lab scenarios to mock user environments and test components of proposed solutions.

You'll need to have:

• Previous working experience as a Linux Administrator for (5) year(s)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar relevant degree and or experience.
• In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux.
• In-depth knowledge of Red Hat Satellite and Capsule server environments.
• Hands-on experience with MySQL and/or MariaDB
• Experience with enterprise virtualization products (VCenter, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)
• Experience with IT automation products (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
• Experience with Big Data OSS products (Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Flume, etc.)
• Expert in Shell, Perl, and/or Python scripting
• Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
• Additional Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Intermediate working knowledge network and security managed services and management systems.
• Willingness to be on call and varying work hours, including weekend’s holidays.
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills and ability to communicate verbally and in writing with customers, associates, vendors, and management.
• Deliver results under pressure.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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